Many Wake Foresters have heard the stories. Back in the fogs of time, this place on the corner of Pine and Wingate was the town school. […]
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Doug Buttram’s Legacy
(By Beverly Whisnant, retired SEBTS library) I was an interested observer in 1991 when Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Vice President Paul Fletcher asked my young friend […]
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I’ll Find a Way or Make It
One thing about inspirational people is that they’re nearly always engaged in a quest. They’re searching for something big and the journey drives them forward. That’s […]
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White Father, Black History
When you discover a white Baptist is the father of an early civil rights activist… It all started when I stumbled across a book with the […]
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Of Iron Boxes, Fire Bells, and Burning Buggies
The burning buggy was a mishap that struck a farmer driving his team along the road to Wake Forest from Franklinton in 1916. He was delivering […]
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A Very Basketball Christmas
Before multi-million dollar contracts, top basketball coaches were rewarded with… kitchen appliances? It was December 1952 and Wake Forest College Basketball Coach Murray Greason had just […]
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